In this blog post we start a series, running through the rest of the year, produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part…
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In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
In this guest post marking the start of Women’s History Month, Dr Susan Major – another of us with a connection to York – explores…
March is Women’s History Month – and so an ideal opportunity for us to return to the women who have so far appeared in our…
This week’s blog post looks at where disability appears in our project database for Welsh railway workers. It’s one of our posts marking Disability History…
Over the years our project and our blog have covered many topics relating to railway work and railway workers. But ethnicity hasn’t explicitly been one…
At the moment, there’s a really interesting event going on – called ‘All About That Place.’ It marks the 10th anniversary of the Society for…
In the UK, the heritage railway sector is an important contributor to public engagement with the past. We benefit from widespread public interest in the…